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Jordan Peterson Is Suspended from Twitter After 'Deadnaming' Elliot Page

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These days, speaking one’s thoughts can be treacherous — especially on social media.

Case in point: Clinical psychologist and best-selling author Jordan Peterson has been suspended for a comment concerning transgender actor Elliot Page.

As posted to Twitter by Jordan’s daughter, Mikhaila, on June 22nd, the Canadian intellectual tweeted the following remark about former Ellen now-Elliot:

“Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.”

A screenshot provided by Mikhaila indicates Jordan violated the Bluebird’s rules against “hateful conduct”:

You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.

“We have determined that this account violated the Twitter Rules,” the explanation reads.

As a result, we’ve temporarily limited some of your account features. While in this state…you’re limited to only sending Direct Messages… Your account will be restored to full functionality in: 12 hours and 0 minutes.

You can start your countdown and continue to Twitter once you delete the content that violates our rules.

There’s a reason they call it the “thought police.” Such a characterization was once ubiquitously used as a figure of speech. But these days, we’re boldly regulated regarding the notions we express.

And amid our modern monitoring, words such as “hate” have been wholly redefined. What is supposed to indicate an extreme emotion now means the side of an issue opposed by a regulating body’s singular intolerant point of view.

Somehow, we’ve taken a space larger than we once could have imagined — the worldwide web — and turned it into a space smaller than existed before we ever went online. Throughout America’s history, people sat in rooms and disagreed. Now we forego those personal encounters so we can stare into a screen and be prohibited from dissent.

Our idea of what’s allowable has so transformed that when Elon Musk proposed buying Twitter, TV’s talking heads decried a “Wild West” — where the chaos of free expression might nightmarishly reign:

Jen Psaki Decries the ‘Harm’ and ‘Misinformation’ of Free Twitter

MSNBC Warns That Free Speech On Twitter Would Be a ‘Danger’ to Free Speech — and It Perfectly Captures Where We Are

Former Clinton Official Calls Elon’s Free-Speech Vision the ‘Dream of Every Dictator’

Of course, it isn’t just happening online or on television:

Academics Fear the ‘Hate’ of Free Speech as a Liberated Twitter Looms

Host of School’s Free Speech Event Issues Language Guide Prohibiting ‘Man,’ ‘Woman,’ and ‘Mother’

Once Elon has taken Twitter’s reigns, will a comment such as Jordan’s be permitted?

Mikhaila posited to the billionaire, “Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment.”

Jordan’s managed multiple social media controversies as of late. In May, he asserted that plus-size Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Yumi Nu was “not beautiful”:

Earlier this month, he offered something similar about the NFL’s first transgender cheerleader:

Concerning beauty, the professor did give a potential “thumbs up” to Instagram model Paige Spiranac.

RedState Deputy Managing Editor Brandon Morse had thoughts:

Jordan Peterson can’t release a tweet without causing the left to fly into some sort of rage, but that’s what happens when you don’t toe the politically correct line set by the outrage mob. Peterson seems to be having fun saying and doing the things that make the left furious, but when you have as much hate coming at you as he does, you might as well do what you can to make it fun.

“Spiranac is beautiful and thousands of years of this being confirmed by our race isn’t going to suddenly stop because the leftist mob said it should,” Brandon wrote.

What will thousands of years of constant speech suppression stop? How about a hundred years? Or twenty-five? We’re quickly on our way to finding out.

-ALEX

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Bill Maher Drives a Stake Through Leftism as the Democrat Party Abandons American Voters

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As is his increasing custom, on Friday night, Bill Maher skewered the Left. And he must’ve enlarged the group of SJWs calling for his #cancellation.

During HBO’s Real Time, Bill brought up the idea of an attorney as related to the Johnny Depp trial. The host posed that political leaders are supposed to essentially be lawyers — they serve as our advocates. He went on to drive a stake through the Party of the Donkey, for all the people it no longer represents.

A partial recap of the aggrieved and unrepresented:

Formerly Democratic Hispanics. As an example, a south Texas congressional district — which had long sided with Dems — recently “stopped seeing [the Democratic candidate] as their lawyer.” Therefore, a seat in the House of Representatives was flipped.

“[The Latino residents’] message to [Dems] was, ‘I’m an American now. I’m here. Be my lawyer, not the lawyer for the migrants showing up in my backyard.’”

Additionally:

“Every month, I see a new poll reporting how much Latinos despise the woke term ‘Latinx.’ It’s about as popular with them as a reboot of Speedy Gonzalez. Even the country’s oldest Latino civil rights group came out against it. Yet, AOC keeps defending it, saying, ‘Gender is fluid. Language is fluid.’ Yes, and Latino voters are fluid.”

Asian Americans, “whose support for Democrats is down 16 points since the last election.” Joe Biden’s party has eliminated advanced educational programs in which Asian students often excel.

Poor Americans who couldn’t afford college. “President Biden wants to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt,” Bill pointed out. “Okay, but the poorer two-thirds of American kids who don’t get a college degree are going to say, ‘Why should the people who didn’t go to college and make less money subsidize the people who did go and make more? … You’re not my lawyer.’”

Straight Americans. (Vastly gay) West Hollywood’s guaranteed basic income initiative “had to be suspended because it was unconstitutional. They set up a program where 25 residents were to get $1,000 for 18 months — but only if you identified as LGBT-the-rest-of-it. … Because no one in West Hollywood will hire a gay person?”

The sexually traditional, who still believe in “mothers.” “For decades,” Bill noted, “liberals have said, ‘If only men could get pregnant, [abortion] wouldn’t even be an issue.’”

The comedian planted seeds of outrage with his sexual-identity bit:

“When the wokey end of the progressive spectrum talk about abortion now, they shy away from [the] word ‘women.’ And prefer terms like ‘birthing people‘ and ‘people who menstruate.’ Because somewhere, there’s a trans man who’s pregnant, and I say good for him. And I’ll be looking for his story somewhere in a future issue of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Oh, Democrats, let’s take the first [darn] word a human animal understands — ‘mama‘ — and replace it with something best understood by four (Marxist revolutionary Leon) Trotsky-ites at Berkeley.”

“As with all these issues,” Bill wrapped up, “the wavering voter is saying to her lawyer — the Democratic Party — ‘Hey, so happy for you that you have so many other clients and that you care so much about their problems. … But you’re supposed to be my lawyer.”

Language Warning:

Bill is right — and he himself is symbolic of the shift underway. As Elon Musk — who’s now leaning toward support for Ron DeSantis — recently tweeted, the Right hasn’t moved nearly so much as has the Left. In an attempt at progress, the DNC has run ahead, not realizing American voters aren’t so keen on picking up the pace:

Surely to Bill’s dismay, the old-school liberal is now practically conservative:

Bill Maher Torches California for Its Regulation

Bill Maher Blows up Some of the Dem Lies About the SCOTUS Draft Opinion

Bill Maher Blasts the Anti-Free-Speech Fining of Jack Del Rio, Compares It to ‘Pee’

Bill Maher Nails the Left Again, This Time on Toxic Masculinity

Bill Maher May Have Just Delivered His Most Conservative Monologue Ever

The midterms are coming up; what should we expect? Given all the above, Democrat dominance isn’t likely in the cards.

-ALEX

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Twitter Board of Directors Unanimously Recommends Sale to Elon Musk

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In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission now available to the public, Twitter’s board of directors have unanimously endorsed the sale of Twitter shares to Telsa CEO and free speech advocate Elon Musk.

The filing, available on the SEC’s site, makes it clear that Twitter’s Board of Directors believes that the sale is in the best interest of Twitter’s shareholders.

Twitter’s Board of Directors, after considering the factors more fully described in the enclosed proxy statement, unanimously: (1) determined that the merger agreement is advisable and the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of Twitter and its stockholders; and (2) adopted and approved the merger agreement, the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

Twitter’s Board of Directors unanimously recommends that you vote:

(1) “FOR” the adoption of the merger agreement;

(2) “FOR” the compensation that will or may become payable by Twitter to its named executive officers in connection with the merger; and

(3)“FOR” the adjournment of the special meeting, from time to time, to a later date or dates, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes to adopt the merger agreement at the time of the special meeting.

The next step is for the shareholders to officially vote on the sale, which would be the final step in Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media giant.

The filing comes a week after Musk met virtually with Twitter employees and months after he announced his intention to buy Twitter and take it private in the hopes of re-establishing Twitter as a platform for free speech.

Activists and politicians on the Left have been extremely wary of Musk’s buyout, going so far as to portray him as mentally unstable and a white supremacist. Despite some pushback seen in leaked communications from staff, however, the board of directors understands that, for investors, this is probably the best deal they’ll ever get.

If shareholders vote to approve the sale, it would make Musk the chief of one of the biggest social media platforms online.

Elon Musk Calls Unions' Stranglehold Over Biden Admin 'Next-Level Insanity'

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Tesla CEO and possible, future Twitter owner Elon Musk blasted the Biden Administration’s ties to unions in a new interview released Tuesday, saying “the general public is not aware of the degree to which unions control the Democratic Party.”  He spoke with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley club and noted that neither of his two most prominent enterprises—Tesla and SpaceX—are unionized.

He further describes how Tesla was not invited to a White House electric vehicles event because of that fact. Of course, the powerful United Auto Workers Union (UAW) was invited. Musk said:

Last year, Biden held an EV summit where Tesla was explicitly not allowed to come, but the [United Auto Workers] was. So, Tesla has made two-thirds of all the electric vehicles in the United States.

So, deliberately excluding us from an EV summit at the White House—but including UAW—tells you everything you need to know.

He concluded:

They have so much power over the White House that they can exclude Tesla from an EV summit — insane.

Musk was also miffed that “Electric Joe” Biden heaped praise on GM CEO Mary Barra at the EV summit, in a quarter where GM delivered just 26 electric vehicles. “That’s some next-level insanity,” he said.

He has taken issue with the UAW in the past, once quipping that their motto should be, “Fighting for the right to embezzle money from autoworkers.”  Love him or not, he certainly is funny.

Benzinga reports that Musk believes the UAW wants Tesla to unionize. “I don’t like the UAW,” he flatly declared, further charging that the union launched a smear campaign against Tesla because of its success.

The UAW is one of the most powerful and politically active unions in the US. From InluenceWatch:

The UAW was at the forefront of the American labor movement and used militant strikes and sit-downs to force American car manufacturers to enter into their first labor agreements during the 1930s and 1940s. Over the years, the UAW has lobbied for excessive labor handouts—at one point including a “jobs bank” that paid laid off autoworkers 95 percent of their salary. The UAW also fought for an $80 billion government-funded auto industry bailout that critics claimed was merely a thinly veiled bailout for the UAW.

They’re also heavily into political donations:

The union uses this money to push a left-of-center agenda that includes traditional labor union prerogatives, such as replacing secret-ballot unionization elections with public “card check” and other liberal items including environmentalist manufacturing mandates, tax increases, legal status for millions of illegal immigrants, and laws to ease prison sentencing.

While Musk is specifically targeting the UAW in his comments, one can’t help but wonder what he thinks of other bullying unions that put their own interests above the nation’s—most notably, the teachers unions.

Musk has been in the news constantly these past few months, mostly for the ongoing saga of his attempt to purchase Twitter, but also for his recent firing of whiney SpaceX employees, his viral tweets, and his political endorsements. For those who (rightfully) feel that deep-pocketed unions hold entirely too much sway over both parties, but especially the Democrats, Musk’s latest broadsides will be music to their ears.

Watch the full interview here: